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Nice. It's pretty, has a sweet meaning, and to me it ever so slightly suggests words like command and demand and mandate, so it has an air of seriousness and verbal power. The only problems I have with it are minor - the likely nickname, Mandy; and the fact that sometimes I really hear the "man" part when I say Amanda. So it can sound phrasey with some words - someone says, "A man doesn't ..." and she turns her head. No biggie though - that happens with my own name too and it's just funny.

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Amanda Marino flows okay. Gosh, I wish I had such an easy last name to combine with. It sounds dashing with first names so easily.

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Bridget? Beth? Brandon? Brent? Benedict? Gabriel? Gemma? Georgia? Gwendolyn?

This message was edited 5/18/2010, 12:23 PM